A Letter to a Christian Newspaper:
Sir:
Regarding imputed sin. I believe the idea is thoroughly Scriptural, though acknowledging that there is much controversy concerning what is meant by the term. I understand it to mean that all those who die do so because of sin, even He who did not sin as the first Adam, i.e. the Second Adam. I base this on Romans 5.12 ff.. All men are thus imputed with sin, and all men thus die, though one man knew no sin …
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Imputation of Sin
Nov 14
… scolding me for not keeping up to date with new theological trends myself.
Being made sin and being made righteous refers to facts not fictive pictures
When browsing through magazines, web-pages, chat-groups and blogs, one gains the impression that it is now fashionable to discuss the limitations of the Manhood of Christ and His alleged cooperation in a gigantic hoax whereby the Father and the Son worked out what their proponents call a ‘forensic’ method of …
Putting an End to Sin
Aug 21
Dear Brethren,
The doctrine that Christ puts an end to all sin for all time and eternity is a red thread throughout Scripture. Thus I feel that the recent discussion on the Symposium has chased a red herring rather than that red thread. I attach some thoughts on the subject as a reaction to a New Focus article by Jonathan Bayes under the title ‘Propitiation for the World: Some Thoughts on 1 John 2:2b.’
In this article, the author does …
Reply to Tony Bickley
Dec 31
… my repeated claim that Christ in His human nature was tempted in all points as we are, yet without sin, that I teach that the Sinless One was a sinner. Furthermore, he concludes from my belief that Christ became sin on our behalf that I teach that this sin was Christ’s own and not Brother Bickley’s sin and mine. Moreover, he asks me to tell him how Christ rid himself of the sin imputed to Him. This question is best answered by the NT, especially Romans 8:16, “God sending his own Son in …
Part One: The scriptures conclude all under sin
Sin refers to God’s law alone
The word ‘sin’ is a rarity nowadays and like the gospel words ‘holiness’ and ‘righteousness’, might soon disappear from our vocabulary. The reasons is two-fold: ‘sin’ in its traditional meaning is the opposite of holiness and righteousness, theological terms which relate to the Person of God. Thus, there can be no awareness of …
… see also that there is no righteousness in themselves apart from Christ’s righteousness which is imputed to them. They can thus say truthfully that Christ lives in them and that He alone constitutes their hope of Glory. This, most readers of this magazine will confess, is nothing new. It is the essence of the Gospel we have come to love.
John Wesley’s Criticism of Theron and Aspasio
Hervey was a very humble person and greatly admired his former teacher, John Wesley, so …
… views of the substitution of Christ.”
Thus the weary soul who feels the burden of his sin, is not pointed to the One who fulfilled all that man broke concerning the law but one who deviated from its letter and found its spirit above and thus beyond it. Fuller offers the sinner a new way which is only attainable through the right use of reason and what he calls ‘inference ‘. The Scriptures, indeed, he argues, never say that Christ died for anyone in particular but merely that …
… and publications. Hervey was particularly fond of Gill as he taught the sinner’s need of the imputed righteousness of Christ and Toplady loved Gill for the way he convicted Arminians of their faulty view of man. Hervey wrote of Gill who, “presents us with such rich and charming displays of the glory of Christ’s person, the freeness of His grace to sinners, and the tenderness of His love to the church.” What better report could be given of a Christian evangelist?
In order …
… Johann Agricola. Melanchthon taught that the moral law was necessary to promote a conviction of sin and repentance, whereas Agricola (termed an Antinomian by Luther) believed that repentance came by the working of the Holy Spirit in the sinner and is thus the fruit not of the Law but of the Gospel. Fuller adopted Agricola’s view and believed that sinners repent on hearing the gospel and then they need the (weakened) law to teach them the way of righteousness. Huntington, however, …
… moral lives, had found something greater. They believed in preaching the righteousness of Christ imputed to elect sinners through the free grace of God as the result of a Saviour’s redemptive and vicarious death for His Church.
Church statistics show that between 1700 and 1785 Protestant churches had grown by well over four hundred percent in Germany. In England literally hundreds of clergymen and Dissenting pastors were now preaching Christ as the fulfilment of the Law for His …
